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by mcantor 16y ago
Does Apple read Hacker News? If Apple gives me a free iPhone 4, Microsoft will be in big trouble...
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by mcantor 16y ago
I created an outbound calling campaign to ask all of my friends if they want to hang out tonight, record their results in the database, and call them losers if they say no. It took me less than 20 minutes to do. This is Awesome, with a ca
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by mcantor 16y ago
This is absolutely tremendous, and I am already having a blast. Thank you! Only one point of frustration: There should be an obvious way to get variables from the call row. You can update the call row with the "Update Call Row" module i
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by mcantor 16y ago
Finally, a way for me to automatically prank call my friends and record their bewildered responses in a database!
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by mcantor 16y ago
For a long time, the only two applications I loved this much were vim and Photoshop. Now there are three.
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by mcantor 16y ago
This is a novel idea; a great way to utilize willingness to meet, talk and collaborate. I may have to steal this idea from you some time, Kent... or I may just give you a call! :-)
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by mcantor 16y ago
An essay on a site for programmers is not "every day language." He said, "Grow up people," which is not very respectful. Those are two apparent reasons.
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by mcantor 16y ago
It's amazing how much your demeanor matters. You can't just go through the motions when it comes to socializing--if your heart isn't in it, it comes through in every single microgesture, and people see through your perfunctory patterns ins
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by mcantor 16y ago
I didn't think of this soon enough to add it as an edit, but it feels like a very relevant and succinct aphorism: Just as courage is not the absence of fear, extroversion is not the absence of social anxiety.
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by mcantor 16y ago
Is camarades.com the project you referred to that you founded in 1995 and now produces a "FYM cashflow" for you?
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by mcantor 16y ago
I strive to be a good friend, though of course time management means that I can't devote the same amount of energy to every acquaintance. A lot of programmer-types aren't very sociable (as the stereotype goes), and I often hear a lot of us
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by mcantor 16y ago
Great link! Thanks for the post. It's one of the better summaries of SEO practices around.
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by mcantor 16y ago
I think along these lines every time someone mentions the Dunning-Kruger effect, which is frequent these days on Hacker News. It reminds me of a funny aphorism I once heard about higher education: First you get your Bachelor's Degree, and
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by mcantor 16y ago
It just occurred to me that "Explicit is better than implicit" has become a part of my deeply-ingrained ethos. It even affects how I communicate with people , not just the Python interpreter. I wonder if that's awesome, or if I should re
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by mcantor 16y ago
[citation needed] Seriously though, despite how anecdotal this page is, it gave me some food for thought. Does Google really care about how far in the future I have registered my domains? I'd love a source on that.
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by mcantor 16y ago
Drat... foiled at my own game!
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by mcantor 16y ago
How is this hacker news?
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by mcantor 16y ago
I tried this once. I'm sure it kicks ass when it works, but when I was done, my face looked like something out of a Hellraiser movie. Never again!
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by mcantor 16y ago
Plan C.3 - beard and write a new programming language, since that is the main prerequisite for being a famous language founder. (the new language will be called "Stubble" of course.)
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by mcantor 16y ago
Yes, and depending on the trim-length I look like either a terrorist or a history professor. Neither is preferable!
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by mcantor 16y ago
The more I read articles like these (they pop up everywhere once in a while), the more I am beginning to see a common theme develop, namely: It depends on the guy. Google around for a while and look at all of the anecdotes, including the on
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by mcantor 16y ago
You met your love based on a niche common interest/activity--programming in PHP--as opposed to a broad common activity--online dating. Not trying to trivialize anything you said... your story is completely awesome, actually. I just want t
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by mcantor 16y ago
You're absolutely correct; I just couldn't resist anyway.
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by mcantor 16y ago
" Finally ?" " Finally ," Gmail introduces rich text signatures? Not, "Finally, America Gets Out of Debt" or, "Finally, a Global Inter-Cultural Renaissance" or hell, even "Finally, a Fast T-Mobile Android Phone With an Effing Slide-Out Keyb
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by mcantor 16y ago
The Huffington Post post?
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by mcantor 16y ago
Get my "C" rating in Foil at a USFA-sanctioned fencing tournament.
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by mcantor 16y ago
Upvoted for a double-whammy of awesome: Not only have you given us the gift of github, but you just taught me the word "opprobrium". Domo arigatou!
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Tell HN: No, it really isn't turning into Reddit
11 points by mcantor 16y ago|0 comments
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by mcantor 16y ago
So, wanna hang out later[1]? 1 - http://xkcd.com/165/
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by mcantor 16y ago
There is so much talk in this article about how having a child does not affect your happiness positively, and the cited examples range from dealing with the financial burden to the psychological distress of trying to control a misbehaving k

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